Samsung Link launches on Virgin Mobile Canada
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Jul 29th 2009 2:14PM
posted Jul 29th 2009 2:14PM
Here we were, just minding our own business and thinking that the Samsung Link was going to be christened by Bell, then bam -- out of nowhere, Virgin goes and steals some thunder. If you're looking for EV-DO, go ahead and keep right on lookin' because you're not going to find it here -- but otherwise, the Link offers portrait QWERTY on the cheap alongside a 1.3 megapixel cam, microSD slot, and stereo Bluetooth. If you like what you see, you can go ahead and grab it now for CAD $99.99 (about $92) on prepaid or CAD $29.99 (about $28) on a three-year deal. Sorry, Bell guys -- it's coming soon. We think.[Thanks, Daniel]
Update: As commenter live_strong points out, Bell's bought out the remainder of Virgin Mobile Canada that it didn't already own -- so this is all making a whole lot of sense, though as far as we can tell, customers who are on the Bell branded service still won't be able to get in on the Link just yet.
I really wish engadget would refrain from publishing this sort of garbage.
What do you mean?
virgin canada is bell. or sort of. they buy their minutes from bell. many users looking for the cheap version of bell go to virgin even though its not owned by them.
virgin mobile is now a subsidiary of bell mobility. much like sprint's purchase of virgin usa bell acquired the remaining 50% of virgin canada a few weeks ago
The BELL version of the phone is shown (in black, or white) on the Best Buy Canada site. Strange that it's listed at $219 CAD with no contract from Bell, and only $99 CAD with no contract from Virgin. Needless to say, Bell/Virgin had no interest in a coordinated launch of this phone.
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10127497&catid=23497